Tag Archives: Education

Australia’s best schools to take Aboriginal students

By Tracker, May 9, 2013
Results show the need for the Queensland government to sign up to the federal government's Gonski education reforms, which allocate more funding to disadvantaged and public schools.

NATIONAL: A private-sector group is setting its sights high with a plan to send more than 7000 indigenous children to some of Australia’s best schools.

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Education in decline nationwide: Garrett

By Tracker, September 3, 2012
Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth Peter Garrett.

NATIONAL: The federal government knows what has to be done to arrest the decline of the nation’s schools and needs the states on side to do it, School Education Minister Peter Garrett says.

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Govt MPs defend Gonski delay

By Tracker, August 20, 2012
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

NATIONAL: Federal Labor MPs have defended how long it is taking the government to respond to the Gonski schools funding review.

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Greens back calls for Gonski response

By Tracker, August 20, 2012
Children from the Cape York community of Kowanyama. (AAP IMAGE/DAVID SPROULE)

NATIONAL: The Australian Greens want the federal government to act on the Gonski school funding review by passing the recommendations into law by the end of the year.

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No money for Gonski reforms: Pyne

By Tracker, August 20, 2012
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

NATIONAL: The federal government is delaying its response to the Gonski school funding review because it doesn’t have the money for the proposed education reforms, the coalition says.

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Teachers don’t need to be smart: Garrett

By Tracker, August 1, 2012
Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth Peter Garrett.

NATIONAL: Teachers don’t need to be smart or gifted as long as they are passionate, federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett says.

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THE WAY AHEAD: Listen to the children

By Jeff McMullen, November 1, 2011
Children from the Cape York community of Kowanyama. (AAP IMAGE/DAVID SPROULE)

NATIONAL: JEFF McMULLEN* wonders when Australia is going to start listening to the cries of Aboriginal children around the country.

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Aboriginal education in crisis: professor

By Tracker, September 19, 2011

NATIONAL: Aboriginal school education across Australia is in crisis, a leading academic says.

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Opposition accuses govt of delaying curriculum

By Tracker, August 23, 2011

NATIONAL: The federal government wants to delay introducing a national curriculum but isn’t using the extra time to listen to stakeholders, the opposition says.

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Djarragun continues running

By Amy McQuire, August 10, 2011

QUEENSLAND: The troubled Djarragun College in Cairns will keep running for now, with Noel Pearson’s Cape York Partnership taking over temporary control of it.

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